Set this cheese ball out at a party and it will disappear like magic before your eyes. I like to serve it with plain potato chips or real dill pickle-flavored potato chips instead of the artificially flavored ones. Crackers and raw veggies work too.
Ingredients
- ounces cream cheese: 16 piece (softened)
- sour cream: 0.33333 cup
- dill pickles: 1 cup (diced)
- sharp Cheddar cheese: 1 cup (shredded)
- Monterey Jack cheese: 1 cup (shredded)
- dill pickle juice: 2 Tbsp
- green onions: 3 piece (chopped)
- paprika: 1 tsp
- dill: 1 tsp (dried)
- ½ cups Cheddar cheese-flavored pretzels: 1 piece
- slices bacon, cooked and crumbled: 6 piece
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Combine cream cheese, sour cream, diced dill pickles, Cheddar cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, dill pickle juice, green onions, paprika, and dried dill in a large bowl. Stir until evenly combined. Form mixture into a ball. Cover and refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour.
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Just before serving, place pretzels in a food processor and pulse until bread crumb consistency. Combine pretzel crumbs and bacon on a flat plate.
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Roll the cheese ball in the pretzel mixture until all sides are coated.
